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Learning Objectives
Describe how the brain produces behavior and how learned patterns of behavior become a personality.
List the personality disorders and explain how they disrupt relationships.
Discuss how to diagnose and treat the major anxiety disorders, including dental anxiety, and outline the effects of early life stress, medical disorders, and medications on anxiety.
Describe the characterisits of posttraumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and explain why they are no longer grouped with anxiety disorders.
Outline the diagnositc criteria, course, and many treatment options for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
Describe how the information in this course can be utilized to improve patient care and patient outcomes.
Describe, for this course, the implications for nursing, dentistry, mental helath, and other health professions.